Udinese Coach Warns Of Borowski, Micoud And Klose Trio

First Team
Tuesday, 18.10.2005 / 09:07

Serse Cosmi doesn't see himself as a routined expert in his field. Understatement is more to his liking as he rolls his eyes under his baseball cap and exclaims: "It's difficult for me to find comparissons between the Bundesliga and the Italian Serie A.

Serse Cosmi doesn't see himself as a routined expert in his field. Understatement is more to his liking as he rolls his eyes under his baseball cap and exclaims: "It's difficult for me to find comparissons between the Bundesliga and the Italian Serie A. Giovanni Trapattoni would be the better man for that but I do believe that the German league leaders could play a part in the Italian league." Naming the players who could put the Germans into a strong position in the Italian league was a much easier task for Cosmi who rattled off the names without hesitation: "Micoud naturally, who showed when he was at Parma that he can play in Italy but he didn't have the neccessary luck there. Klose and Borowski could also do a job here", the 47 year old insured and is positive that the trio could make life difficult for his side.

 

Cosmi has respect for the whole Werder team: "This game will bare a great deal of influence on the rest of the group phase. Werder will do everything they can to remain in touch with us. The fact that they have the ability to do that is made clear by their position in their league table." The trainers opinions are echoed by captain Valerio Bertotto: "Not everything will be decided on Tuesday but if we win then Werder have a problem." The defender is preparing for a turbulant tie as news of the offensive power of the visitors has also reached Italy: "That fact that they're here without Ivan Klasnic is not a problem for Bremen. They have good alternatives. Nelson Valdez is very fast and very strong."The boys from Friaul have a distinct amount of respect for the aerial prowess of the Germans: "That is the great strenght of Klose and Valdez, we have to be careful there but we'll do it. Last weekend half of the Siena side were bigger than us but we left the pitch as winners anyway."

 

Trainer Cosmi is happy about his sides mini-success series of two wins in the last two: "It's nice that we are talking about football again. We did have a short but very bad phase in which we lost four games in ten days. That won't happen again - we are in good form." The coach demands a determined performance from his team if they are to continue their upward progress: "I want to see the lads play again as they did in the qualifier against Sporting Lisbon and against Panathinaikos Athens."

 

The Italian trainer is sure that his side are equiped for the challenge and has set up his stall accordingly: "We'll allow Bremen to come at us a little, defend well and wait for the counter - without letting them get into the game too much. I still think bremen are so näive as to throw everything into attack." The Italians have a number of recently absent players returning to the fold who could play against Werder: "Candela will be there, he could have played at the weekend but we wanted to save him for the Bremen match. Pinzi will also be available", explained Cosmi. Up front the Italians, as Werder are spoiled for choice. The big question is whether the trainer will stick with David di Michele who netted a hat-trick against Siena at the weekend or return to using his first choice duo of Vincenzo Iaquinta and Antonio di Natale. The trainer was keeping stum: "Quite honestly, I haven't often had a situation like this in my managerial career, we'll see what happens."

 

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